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Model KNOERNSOH-ILD' HAMMOOK.

No. 459,043. Patented Sept. 8, 1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES KNOERNSCIIILD, OF MILlYAUKEE, VISCONSIN, ASSIGISOR TO THE GEMHAMMOCK AND FLY NET COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

HAMMOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters'Patent No. 459,043, datedSeptember 8, 1891.

Application filed October 20, 1890. Serial No. 368,668. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES KNoERN- SCHILD, of Milwaukee, in the countyof Milwaukee and State of lVisconsin, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Hammocks, of which the following is a description,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part ofthis specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hammocks having a body formed ofwoven fabric and supported by cords secured to the ends of the wovenfabric.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my complete device,in which the hammock is represented in the position in which it is used,the hammock being spread at the ends by rigid rods or poles thrustthrough the hem of the woven fabric. These rods or poles through theends of the fabric may or may not be used, as desired. Fig. 2 is afragment of the fabric of a hammock lying on the top of a table and withwhich the supporting-cord is shown in different and successiveconditions in which it exists in the process of securing it to thehammock and tying several strands of it together for use. Fig. 3 is atransverse section of the fabric of the hammock with the supporting cordin- 0 sorted through it, showing its relation to the fabric.

The body of the hammock is formed of a piece of woven fabric A, which isfinished at both ends by turning the ends over upon itself and stitchingthem down, forminga loop or hem B.

In making hammocks of the general form of the one shown in the drawingsthe body formed of the woven fabric A is constructed on a loom andrequires the attention and care of a skilled operative to manufactureit. WVhen removed from the loom and cut into pieces of proper length forhammocks, the hems B are made by stitching the ends down upon the mainpart of the fabric on a sewingmachine, and thereafter thesupporting-cord (J is inserted, looped, and tied by girls or boys orother unskilled cheap labor. For this purpose a rod D is insertedtemporarily in the hem of the fabric in which the supportingcord is tobe inserted, as shown in Fig. 2.

The cord 0 is then run into the fabric by threading it on a needle andrunning the needle with the cord thereon through the fabric at thecenter line or bend of the hem in a running stitchthat is, by passingunder several threads of the warp, then over a few threads of the warp,and again under several threads of the warp, and so continuing acrossthe entire fabric. This process puts the cord into the fabric and leavesit in the condition shown at E. Thereupon the end of the hammock isplaced fiat on a table T, with the rod D placed behind and against thepegs F F, inserted in the table, and other pegs G G being inserted inholes therefor inthe table at proper distances apart and at a desireddistance in front of the end of the hammock. The loops E E on theoutside of the fabric commencing at one side of the hammock are pulledforward until they are long enough to and are passed over a peg Gingroups of two or three loops, as preferred. These loops forming a singlegroup are subsequently removed from the pegs one by one and tiedmedially in a knot II, whereby the loops are secured together in groupspermanently, each group outside of the knot forming a single compoundloop I, adapted for supporting the hammock. The loops as firstlengthened or drawn out from the fabric are shown in groups of two andthree loops at K and L, respectively. The free ends of the cord 0 aremade fast to the fabric by tying or knotting them thereto or by knottingthem into the outer groups of loops.

Heretofore a supporting-cord has been secured to a hammock byinterweaving it with the warp-threads and drawing the cord out atintervals into loops; but this construction is 9c objectionable, becauseit is difficult and expensive to weave this extra cord into the fabricduring the process of weaving and more difiicult to draw the cord outinto loops, and the completed device is not satisfactory, 5 because thesupporting-cord, being run under and over each alternate thread of thewarp, supports the hammock by strain on only onehalf of the threads ofthe warp, thus puckering the fabric and producing a com iaratively to:weak construction.

In another form of hammock heretofore made the supportingcordwasintroduced into the fabric by drawing it doubled or in a looped formthrough the fabric between the threads of the warp, the result of whichwhen the hammock is used is to pull the threads of the warp apart wherethe supporting cord passes doubled between them, thus weakening anddisfiguring the hammock.

It will be seen that in my improved device the method of securing asupporting-cord in the end of the body of a hammock constructed of wovenfabric is very simple and easy to be accomplished, and that the work maybe done by boys or girls or other unskilled persons. It will alsobennderstood that the construction forms a strong and enduring hammock,and that as only a single strand of the cord is passed through thefabric between any two strands of the warp there is no great tendency topull the strands of the warp apart when the hammock is suspended on thesupporting-cords, as there would be if the double or looped cord weremerely pulled through the fabric between the same two strands of thewarp thereof.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an article of manufacture, a hammock comprising a body part formed ofwoven fabric having hems at and across its two ends, supporting-cords,one at each end, inserted in the fabric alternately over and underseveral strands of the warp of the fabric, but so as to have a greaternumber of strands above the cord, the exterior loops of which cord arelengthened and knotted together ingroups in single compound loops, thefree ends of the cords being secured substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES KNOERNSCHILD.

Witnesses:

O. T. BENEDICT, ANNA V. FAUsT.

